Transcript The High-Level Taskforce (HLT) on the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) Buruhani Nyenzi Manager, Secretariat to the HLT on the GFCS ([email protected])

The High-Level Taskforce (HLT) on
the
Global Framework for Climate
Services (GFCS)
Buruhani Nyenzi
Manager, Secretariat to the HLT on the GFCS
([email protected])
OUTLINE:
Part I: The Outcome of WCC-3
Part II: The outcomes from the
intergovernmental meeting
Part III: Outcomes from the HLT-1 meeting
Part IV: Consultation strategy
Part V: Outcomes from the HLT-2 meeting
Part VI: Outcomes from the HLT-3 meeting
Part I: The Outcome of WCC-3
The road to the WCC-3
- 1st WCC (1979)
- 2nd WCC (1990)
- 1999 to 2007 discussions for a
possible 3rd WCC
- A Cg-XV decision (2007)
- A 2-year preparatory process
- International Organizing
Committee
- Involvement of WMO Members
Review of the Outcome of WCC-3
4
Key WCC-3 statistics
• 13 messages by Heads of State/Governments
• 57 Ministers or equivalent officials also addressed the HLS
• 14 Executive Heads of UN Agencies & Programmes present
• 17 major contributors to Conference trust fund
• ~ 2500 scientists participated in the “expert” sessions
• 12 “White Papers” addressing key climate service issues
Review of the Outcome of WCC-3
5
Side/media events & exhibitions
-
~ 200 poster participants
World Climate Broadcasts Forum
Media 21 journalists workshop
2 new WMO publications launched
 Climate Sense
 From Weather Gods to Modern
Meteorology - A philatelic
journey
- Numerous side events
Review of the Outcome of WCC-3
6
PURPOSE OF EXPERT SEGMENT
Engaged a wide cross-section of:
• climate scientists
• Expert providers of climate information and
users of climate information and services
…….in a wide-ranging discussion on the
essential elements of a new Global
Framework for Climate Services
Review of the Outcome of WCC-3
7
SCIENCE OUTCOME
Expert segment consisted of:
• 12 parallel working sessions in key sectors
• 3 plenary round-table sessions
• 4 forums in parallel with the working
sessions
• 4 workshops on implementing climate
services
• 3 poster sessions
Review of the Outcome of WCC-3
8
CONCLUSIONS FROM THE
EXPERT SEGMENT
• Great scientific progress has been made
over the past 30 years
• Present capabilities to provide effective
climate services fall far short of meeting
present and future needs
• Most urgent need is for much closer
partnership between the providers and users
of climate services
• Major new and strengthened research efforts
are required to increase the time range and
skill of climate prediction
Review of the Outcome of WCC-3
9
OUTCOMES OF THE WORLD
CLIMATE CONFERENCE - 3
• Prepared a Brief Note – concept of a
Framework for Climate Services
• Expert Segment – Conference statement
• High-Level Segment - Conference
Declaration
• Recomendation to establish the Global
Framework for Climate Services.
• Conference report and proceedings
Review of the Outcome of WCC-3
10
THE BRIEF NOTE
Presents an overview of the Framework
through answering questions:
• Why is a GFCS necessary
• What is the GFCS
• What would be achieved through the GFCS
• Who will participate in the GFCS
• What are the next steps in developing a
GFCS
• How will the GFCS be supported
Review of the Outcome of WCC-3
11
CONFERENCE DECLARATION
• Decided to establish a GFCS
• Requested the SG of WMO to convene an
Intergovernmental Meeting within four months
• Decided that the High Level Taskforce should
prepare a report after wide consultation
• Decided that the report of the Taskforce be
circulated to Member States for consideration
at the next WMO Congress (in 2011)
Review of the Outcome of WCC-3
12
Part II: The Outcomes from the
Intergovernmental Meeting
11-12 January, 2010, Geneva
An overview on the outcomes
of the Intergovernmental Meeting
• The Terms of Reference for
the Taskforce were agreed
• The composition of the
Taskforce, as proposed by the
WMO’s Secretary-General
agreed.
Global Framework for Climate
Services
14
ToR: Scope of Work (1)
The HLT will undertake its work in accordance with the WCC-3
Declaration and will:
1.Develop options for governance of the GFCS, ensuring its
intergovernmental nature, and provide the reasoning for the
preferred option(s);
Global Framework for Climate
Services
15
ToR: Scope of Work (2)
2. Outline of a plan for the implementation of the GFCS, which
includes:
• Ensuring the central role of national governments;
• Proposing a range of options for immediate and longer-term
actions to realize the GFCS;
• Specifying measurable indicators, with timelines, for the actions
necessary to implement the elements of the GFCS;
• Estimates of costs of implementation of these options, with
clear indications of the financial resources and enhanced
technological capabilities required, and their likely sources, to
ensure effective global implementation; and,
• A strategy for capacity building in developing countries
particularly those of the African countries, Least Developed
Countries (LDCs), Small Island Countries (SIDS) and LandLocked Developing Countries (LLDCs).
Global Framework for Climate
Services
16
ToR: Scope of Work (3)
3.
Make findings and propose next steps in relation to:
• The role of the UN system and other relevant stakeholders, as well as the
mechanisms for their contributions;
• Approaches to global data policy (addressing data gaps, ownership, data
protection, confidentiality, exchange, applications, and usage);that would lead to
enhanced capability of the GFCS ,taking into account WMO Congress XII
Resolutions 40 and WMO Congress XIII Resolution 25;
• Improving systematic in situ observations and monitoring of climate especially
in data-sparse areas, in order to increase data availability, including for research
and prediction;
• Approaches for reviewing the implementation of the GFCS;
• Strategies for building capacity in developing countries in accordance with their
needs and priorities, including their access to global and regional climate models
output and the underlying technology embedded in the models, and their ability to
independently develop/improve in-country climate services capacity;
• A strategy for promoting a common global understanding of the GFCS and for
coherent and coordinated messaging and information sharing.
Global Framework for Climate
Services
17
ToR: Scope of Work (4 & 5)
4. Determine its own rules of procedure with consensus the
guiding principle for decision taking;
5.Be open and transparent in its functioning, making publicly
available, including through WMO web site, the following:
• a report of each meeting held, including a list of participants;
• any submissions received and;
• any “White Papers” generated as a part of its research activities.
Global Framework for Climate
Services
18
ToR: Scope of Work (6)
6. Develop the components of GFCS and define the roles,
responsibilities, and capabilities of the elements within the GFCS
and clearly illustrate how it will assist the integration of climate
information and services into national planning, policy and programmes
for among others, water resource management and development,
health and public safety, energy generation and distribution, agriculture
and food security, land and forestry management, desertification, ecosystem protection, sustainable development and poverty reduction,
taking into account the special needs of Africa, Small Island
Developing States (SIDS), Least Developed Countries (LDCs), and
Land-Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs);
Global Framework for Climate
Services
19
Composition of the Taskforce
1 Joaquim Chissano
. (Mozambique)
2 Jan Egeland (Norway)
.
3 Angus Friday (Grenada)
.
4 Eugenia Kalnay (Ms)
. (Argentina/USA)
5 Ricardo Lagos (Chile)
.
6 Julia Marton-Lefevre
. (Ms)
Hungary/France/USA)
7 Khotso Mokhele (South
. Africa)
8. Chiaki Mukai (Ms) (Japan)
9. Cristina Narbona Ruiz (Ms)
(Spain)
10. Rajendra Singh Paroda
(India)
11. Qin Dahe (China)
12. Emil Salim (Indonesia)
13. Mahmoud Abu-Zeid (Egypt)
14. Fiame Naomi Mata’afa (Ms)
(Samoa)
http://www.wmo.int/hlt-gfcs/membershipBios_en.html
Global Framework for Climate
Services
20
ToR: Support for the Taskforce
Secretariat support will be provided by WMO, which
will host its secretariat and seek funding and other
support for its work.
Global Framework for Climate
Services
21
Who does what in the WMO for the GFCS?
• Elena Manaenkova (ASG) – coordinates interactions
with the UN system
• Avinash Tyagi (D/CLW) – develops the WMO’s
input to the HLT’s proposals
• Geoff Love (D/WDS) – oversights the HLT secretariat
on behalf of the UN
In the HLT Secretariat
• Buruhani Nyenzi – Manager, Secretariat of the HLT
(M/HLT)
• Three Support Staff (Two Secretaries and Scientist)
22
Oversight of the HLT Secretariat
The WMO’s Secretary-General convenes a
Project Oversight Board that aims to meet at
least monthly (in fact it meets about every two
to three weeks).
Composition:
SG, Deputy SG, Assistant SG, D/CLW, D/WDS,
M/HLT and C/CPA
23
Part III: Outcomes from the
First Meeting of the HLT
(HLT-1)
24-26 February 2010
Outcomes from HLT-1 (1)
1: Agreed a draft report structure.
2: Agreed, in concept, a consultation
strategy (questionnaire, opportunistic
sessions at meetings, stakeholder sessions
at HLT meetings, submissions, expert
contributions).
2: Agreed to engage skilled writers to bring
together the expert contributions in a single
report.
Global Framework for Climate
Services
25
A Possible Report Structure
PROPOSED STRUCTURE OF THE HLT REPORT
Part 1 (Approximately 50 pages in length).
A succinct description of the current capabilities for providing climate
services–The Supply side
Part 2 (Approximately 30 pages in length).
Needs and opportunities for strengthening climate services (Fill the gaps) –
The demand side
Part 3 (Approximately 40 pages in length).
Establishing the Global Framework for Climate Services – The Implementation
Strategy.
Global Framework for Climate
Services
26
A Possible Report Structure
Part 1. The Current Climate Services Capability
Chapt.1 The importance and current availability of climate information
Chapt.2 Current earth, atmosphere, ocean observing systems that are
maintained to support climate research and services. Their global coordination,
mechanisms (technologies and networks/systems) to exchange data, and the
data policy frameworks that enable the exchange of climate data and related
information).
Chapt.3 Current research activities (including global and regional coordination
mechanisms) that support climate services, including the arrangements for the
exchange of research outcomes (such as new technologies and their transfer to
the user communities through the development of client-focused applications).
Chapt.4 Current state of capacity development that supports climate services
(capacity building)..
Global Framework for Climate
Services
27
A Possible Report Structure (Cont.)
2. Needs and opportunities for strengthening climate
Services
Chapt.5 Experience and needs of key climate sensitive socioeconomic sectors
Chapt.6 The role of climate services in national development
and well-being - case studies
Chapt.7 Needs and gaps in the global provision of climate
services .
Global Framework for Climate
Services
28
A Possible Report Structure (Cont.)
3. Options for Implementing a New Framework
Chapt.8 Implementation for the GFCS
Chapt.9 Governance Arrangements
Global Framework for Climate
Services
29
A Possible Report Structure (Cont.)
1. Report will have 9 Chapters
2. At the beginning of the report it will have a preliminary part
that has the Vision, Prefaces, contents, Executive
Summary and Introduction.
3. Each section should conclude with a sub-section that
includes recommendations.
4. The report should be concluded with annexes containing
the HLTs terms of reference, list of consultation sessions
held, full list of acronyms used, and references cited in the
report
Global Framework for Climate
Services
30
WRITING TEAM
•
•
•
•
•
•
Dr Geoff Love (WMO)
Dr Reid Basher (recently retired from ISDR)
Dr Andy Thow (from OCHA)
Dr Andre Kamga (from ACMAD)
Dr Simon Mason ( from IRI)
Dr B. Nyenzi (HLT Secretariat) for oversight
and documents review
31
Next Steps
The Report of the HLT is to go to the WMO Congress (Cg 16),
to be held in Geneva in May, 2011 and also to the SecretaryGeneral of the UN.
The WMO, at Cg 16 will need to decide how best to pursue the
implementation of the GFCS in the following four-year financial
period.
Global Framework for Climate
Services
32
HLT Meeting Dates/Places
Meetings held with reports on the web:
• HLT-1
25 and 26 February / Geneva
• HLT-2
24 and 25 May / Geneva
• HLT-3
2, 3 and 4 August / Beijing
Meetings yet to be held:
• HLT-4
25, 26 and 27 October / Bonn
• HLT-5
13, 14 and 15 December / Geneva
33
Key dates for Report
• Finish Part I
Thursday 20 May
• Finish Part II
Wednesday, 28 July
• Finish Part III
Friday, 24 September then to HLT
members for review by 8 October
Secretariat to revise by15 October and
back to the HLT for 11 days before
HLT-4 in Bonn, 25-27 October 2010
34
Part IV: Consultation Strategy
Consultation Strategy
Face-to-face meetings with key stakeholders in each of the
WMO six Regions;
•Stakeholder sessions at HLT meetings
•A broadly distributed questionnaire that is aligned with the
report structure;
•Outreach to the operational climate community experts
and to researchers involved in developing climate services
for technical guidance; and,
•Government and expert review of the draft report.
Consultative Meetings in the Future
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Nairobi
Bali, Indonesia
Oslo, Norway
Geneva, Switzerland
Beijing, China
Delhi, India
Mexico City, Mexico
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Bogota, Colombia
Marrakech, Morocco
Windhoek, Namibia
Cayman Is, Caribbean
Washington, USA
Cancun, Mexico
April
April/May
8-12 June
9 June
17-18 June
21 June
5-7 July
14 July
20-24 Sept
28 Oct/4 Nov
15-21 Nov
20-22 Nov
??????
29 Nov/10 Dec
Ministerial Conference
WMO RA V Session
IPY Conference
Exec Council Session
Consultation
Consultation
CODIA
WMO CAgM Session
WMO RAIII Session
WMO RA I Session
WMO CBS (Ext) Session
Heads of NMSs
Key Stakeholders
CoP16
37
Barriers to obtaining elements of climate
services (by category)
80%
70%
60%
50%
Provision of services
Academic
40%
Research
30%
20%
10%
0%
Lack of data
availability
Lack of relevant
research
Lack of
expertise in
your
organisation
Poor linkages to Poor linkages to
national
international
expertise
expertise
Other
Other: Data policy restrictions, lack of financial resources, Lack of reliable downscaling models .....
Current gaps in climate-related research capability
(by category)
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
Provision of services
50%
Academic
Research
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
Regional impacts
of climate
variability and
climate change
Forecasting on
monthly to
seasonal time
scales
Policies to deal
with climate
change
Short-term
prediction of pests
and/or disease
outbreaks
Other
Other: Decadal prediction of climate, city-specific effects of climate change.....
Preferred method of service delivery (by category)
90%
80%
70%
60%
Provision of services
50%
Academic
40%
Research
30%
20%
10%
0%
Printed hardcopy
books, reports, etc
Face-to-face
meetings with
experts
Information
downloaded from
the Web
Radio, television,
newspapers
Mobile telephone
The High-Level Taskforce questionnaire can
be found at:
http://www.wmo.int/hlt-gfcs/index_en.html
Part V: Outcomes from the Second
Meeting of the HLT
(HLT-2)
24-25 May 2010, Geneva
Outcomes from HLT-2 (1)
1: Reviewed responses and results from the
questionnaire, submissions from govt and
organizations, expert contributions
2: Reviewed results from consultations at
opportunistic sessions at various meetings
3: Commented for further actions on
consultation strategy
4: Reviewed and commented on the draft
chapters of Part I of the report.
5: Provided guidance on drafting chapters
of Part II of the report
6: Held consultations with stakeholders
from GNV
Global Framework for Climate
Services
43
Part VI: Outcomes from the
Third Meeting of the HLT
(HLT-3)
2- 4 August 2010, Beijing
Outcomes from HLT-3 (1)
1: Reviewed responses and results
from the questionnaire, submissions
from govt and organizations and
expert contributions.
2: Reviewed feedback from
consultations
3: Reviewed and commented on the
edited draft chapters of Part I and
new draft chapters of Part II of the
report.
Global Framework for Climate
Services
45
Outcomes from HLT-3 (2)
1: Harmonise text in the chapters to
avoid repetition and make them clear
2: Brainstormed and provided
guidance on drafting chapters of Part
III
3: Brainstormed on the Vision and
Governance of the GFCS
4: Reviewed its work plan to meet
the tight deadline and budget
Global Framework for Climate
Services
46
Outcomes from HLT-3 (3)
1: Taskforce consulted with
stakeholders from the Chinese govt
departments.
2: Taskforce familiarised itself with
operations of relevant sections of the
Chinese Meteorological
Administration in Beijing and
Shanghai
3: Visited the Meteo World Pavilion
at the World Expo 2010.
Global Framework for Climate
Services
47
The schematic spacial scale the GFCS components will
operate on
48
Outcomes from HLT-3 (4)
Agreed Timeline:
2 - 4 Aug.
HLT-3 Beijing
24 Sept.
Deliver Part III, as a part of a completed Draft
Report.
8 Oct.
All review comments back to the HLT secretariat
15 Oct.
HLT update of the Draft Report incorporating HLT
member review comments.
25 - 27 Oct.
HLT-4 Bonn
Global Framework for Climate
Services
49
Outcomes from HLT-3 (5)
Monday 1 Nov. Draft HLT Report on the web for govt and expert
review.
22 Nov.
Review period ends
30 Nov.
Final-1 version completed by the HLT secretariat
1 Dec.
Final-1 version of report sent to HLT members
13-15 Dec.
HLT-5 Geneva. Members make comment on Final
Report and discuss follow-up activities.
12 Jan. 2011 FINAL version of the Report completed taking
account of feedback from HLT-5.
Global Framework for Climate
Services
50
Thank you for listening
51